Lu Chuan looked on with surprise when he saw Li Youran busy greeting customers at the entrance of the academy.
He discovered that Li Youran was no longer the same Li Youran she used to be. Before, she was always weak and easily fooled.
Li Youran is like a completely different person now; she is strong, brave, and decisive. Even if he begs and pleads, Li Youran will no longer give him a chance.
"You Ran, do you own this bookstore?"
Upon hearing Lu Chuan's voice, Li Youran's face instantly turned cold. She looked at Lu Chuan and thought to herself that this guy was shameless. She had made things so clear last time, yet he still had the nerve to come over and talk to her as if nothing had happened.
"What does this have to do with Young Master Lu?" Li Youran sneered. "If you have something to buy, go buy it quickly. Don't delay me from entertaining my customers."
Liu Zhiyuan, who was helping to serve customers in the bookstore, heard the noise outside and thought someone was causing trouble, so he rushed out in a panic.
"How dare you cause trouble here!"
Liu Zhiyuan's person and voice appeared simultaneously.
"Lu Chuan..." Liu Zhiyuan was stunned after seeing who was causing the trouble.
His first thought was that Li Youran didn't know he and Lu Chuan were friends. If Li Youran knew about his relationship with Lu Chuan, would she dislike him...?
After calming down and thinking it over carefully, Li Youran realized that he had already called out Lu Chuan's name. Even if Lu Chuan didn't say anything, Li Youran would probably be able to guess that the two of them knew each other.
Liu Zhiyuan really wanted to slap himself twice, then slap himself a few times. If he had said these things from the beginning, this wouldn't have happened.
"Why is Brother Zhiyuan here too?" Lu Chuan asked coldly.
One should not covet a friend's wife. He and Liu Zhiyuan were good friends, and Liu Zhiyuan even attended Li Youran's wedding banquet.
Even though he had already divorced Li Youran, Lu Chuan couldn't do such a thing. Lu Chuan clenched his fists and frowned deeply.
"Liu Zhiyuan, how could you do such a despicable thing!"
As Lu Chuan spoke, he threw a punch directly at Liu Zhiyuan.
Liu Zhiyuan had no time to dodge, and the fist was about to land on him. In the blink of an eye, Li Youran delivered a flying kick.
"Lu Chuan, I don't want to lower myself to your level today. Get lost!" Li Youran rolled up her sleeves, put her hands on her hips, and pointed at Lu Chuan angrily.
Li Youran felt that the phrase "a lingering ghost" was tailor-made for Lu Chuan.
Standing behind Li Youran, Liu Zhiyuan felt that he was acting particularly unlike a man at this moment. He had deceived Li Youran, yet she had helped him.
"You Ran, let me explain..."
Liu Zhiyuan thought it was never too late to mend his ways, so before Li Youran asked any questions, he took the initiative to confess, hoping to make amends for his mistake.
Li Youran turned to look at Liu Zhiyuan, but Liu Zhiyuan was stunned.
"What? There's dirt on my face again." Li Youran was afraid that Liu Zhiyuan would wipe the dirt off her face again, so she hurriedly touched her face with her hands.
“You…” Liu Zhiyuan excitedly pointed to the cinnabar birthmark on Li Youran’s arm.
Li Youran raised her arm, glanced at the cinnabar birthmark on her arm, and then looked at Liu Zhiyuan.
"What's wrong?"
Li Youran felt that at this moment, silence was better than words. She didn't need to say anything; the cinnabar mole alone could clearly express what she wanted to say.
"Lu Chuan, you bastard!"
As Liu Zhiyuan spoke, he grabbed Lu Chuan, who had fallen to the ground, and the two began to wrestle.
While feeling joy and relief, Liu Zhiyuan was also incredibly saddened and angry at the injustice and grievances Liu Youran had suffered.
She was still a virgin, but the Lu family wrongly accused her of being unable to have children and then abandoned her.
They had been married for a year, but Lu Chuan had never touched Li Youran. Liu Zhiyuan didn't even need to think about it; Lu Chuan was not a normal man.
No wonder he always avoided others when we went to the toilet together, and he never showered with his classmates.
Liu Zhiyuan pounded on Lu Chuan like a madman. Lu Chuan didn't have time to fight back and soon lay on the ground panting heavily.
"Young Master Liu, please stop hitting him. Today is the bookstore's opening day. Let him be!"
Seeing Lu Chuan being beaten, Li Youran felt a sense of satisfaction, but she didn't want to delay her business, so she hurriedly helped Liu Zhiyuan, who was sitting on the ground, up.
Besides, Liu Zhiyuan is a teacher at the academy, and most of the customers today are students. If the students see this and it gets out, what kind of reputation would that be?
Huh? Li Youran then realized that Lu Chuan and Liu Zhiyuan knew each other. No wonder Liu Zhiyuan looked so surprised when he saw Lu Chuan.
Thinking about it carefully, what Lu Chuan said earlier makes sense. Lu Chuan must have mistakenly thought that Liu Zhiyuan and she were in a romantic relationship.
"You Ran, you've been wronged." Liu Zhiyuan looked at Li Youran with a pained and guilty expression and said, "He never touched you, so how could you be pregnant?"
"You clearly can't have children, yet you wrongly accuse others of being unable to conceive. You've wasted all those years studying the classics!"
Liu Zhiyuan's anger only intensified; he was determined to give Li Youran justice and clear her name!
With such a commotion outside, Li Haoran and the others put down what they were doing and rushed out.
"Does anyone know what this is?" Seeing that more and more people were gathering around, Liu Zhiyuan simply grabbed Li Youran's arm and showed everyone the cinnabar birthmark on her arm.
"Sir, this is a cinnabar birthmark, which only appears on the bodies of virgin women."
One of Liu Zhiyuan's students said respectfully, and then bowed.
“That’s right, this is a cinnabar birthmark,” Liu Zhiyuan nodded to the student.
"Do any of you know the relationship between these two?" Liu Zhiyuan asked and answered himself, "This is my classmate, and this young lady is his ex-wife."
"You may not know this, but this young woman was divorced because she was unable to have children!"
Upon hearing Liu Zhiyuan's words, everyone erupted in uproar.
"Sir, I have a question to ask you." The student who had just answered the question bowed and said, "If you are a virgin, how can you become pregnant and give birth?"
"Good question! Let's hear from this classmate!" Liu Zhiyuan glared angrily at Lu Chuan and snorted, "You're clearly incapable yourself, yet you're blaming your wife for being unable to bear children!"
Lu Chuan's face turned a deep purplish-red, and he wished he could disappear into nowhere.
His unspeakable secret was revealed. Not only that, but it happened at the academy where he studied, in front of so many scholars.
Li Youran stared intently at Liu Zhiyuan, her heart filled with complex emotions.
Liu Zhiyuan stood up for her, even in front of so many people, risking offending Lu Chuan, and Liu Zhiyuan genuinely felt indignant on her behalf.
"Liu Zhiyuan, you just wait!"
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